A lot has happened in three years

There are few times in my life I have felt quite so rough as I did three years ago today.This was the day I arrived in New Zealand. I hot footed off a plane where I’d languished for 26 hours with a bad back, sleep deprivation and the woes and stresses of packing...

Bonding with in-laws, how do you do it?

The kitchen has been at the heart of my relationship with my in-laws almost from the start.  Of course my, now, husband was a common bond but we truly bonded over cooking together. In the days when I commuted the 200 miles between Sunderland and Bedworth to spend...

How handy is your packamac?

For the last 24 hours we’ve been having what I can only describe as packamac weather.  The sort of weather that it might rain, might not rain but when it ranges from a misty drizzle to a deluge.  Whatever the type of rain there is one thing you can be sure...

Shine a light – a photostudy

Light is obviously a key component in photography.  Understanding exposure is one of those topics I’ve not yet mastered but will one day. So in the meantime I thought I’d just experiment and see what snapshots I could take.  These are pictures taken a...

Basset instincts – what can you do?

Yesterday I adored my basset hounds.  But there was a moment today I wasn’t so sure.  Or to be more specific it was Mason I started to have doubts about. The reason?  His hunting instincts had come to the fore. It was an otherwise quiet day here at Domestic...